Sharon Blance Website Re-Design

Sharon Blance is a Christchurch photographer who was looking for an easy way to update her site, blog and run photo galleries to showcase her photography portfolio. Web Matters recommended WordPress to run the site and the galleries using the SimpleViewer gallery plugin. Working in close consultation with Sharon we came up with several concepts [...]

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schema 4 Councils Goes Live

schema provide professional services for local government and councils. Their new website has just gone live at www.schema4councils.com

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Wendover Retirement Village

The new website for the Wendover Retirement Village has just gone live. The site features a blog and an RSS feed so visitors to the site can subscribe to regular news updates. The village includes rest home facilities as well as serviced apartments for semi-independent living.

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Jcdezign: in Google and ranking within 24 hours

Yesterday I blogged about a new site that was re-developed from a flash only website into a HTML website – Jcdezign. The goal was to get a top 10 ranking in Google within a few weeks, and I was going to report back on its progress. As a Flash site on a hosted domain name [...]

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Jcdezign Goes Live

Auckland home staging company Jcdezign were after more leads and realised that  better rankings in Google would be one of the best ways to generate new prospects. Web Matters reviewed the website and found that it had two major problems that were stopping it from ranking for keyword phrases or even in fact its own [...]

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My review of NZ’s Party Political Websites

Back in September I was asked to write a review of New Zealand’s party political websites by Start Up – initially National and Labour and then the minor parties. The series is now live on the NZ Herald website. It was an interesting topic to write about, and I’d suggest that my general apathy towards [...]

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K2 Environmental Website Goes Live

K2 Environmental specialises in Air Quality Testing with expertise in Stack Testing, Air Discharge Testing, Occupational Health and Workplace Testing and Ambient Air Testing. They were looking to update the design of their existing website as well as receive search engine optimisation. Their new Web Matters designed website is now online at www.k2.co.nz

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Tiger Eye Beads Website Goes Live

Check out the new website from Web Matters for bead store tiger eye beads now online at www.tigereyebeads.com. The site features several galleries show casing their jewellery, accessories and beads.

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CDC Workshop: Effective E-Commerce

On September 3rd I’ll be presenting a 3 hour workshop at the CDC on effective e-commerce.  The workshop will be quite interactive with lots of opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences. There will also be practical exercises to help you understand the topic further. Here’s the description of the workshop: Your 24/7 Sales [...]

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Registering an NZ Domain Name

Many web development companies will register your domain name on your behalf as part of the web service (if they do make sure you are listed as the Registrant – otherwise you won’t have any legal rights to the domain name). Alternatively, it is quite straight forward to register it yourself as domain name registrars [...]

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